Just a quick note to say I’ve added The Yokota Officers Club by Sarah Bird to my hundred-novels list. I won’t be giving a full review today, but it is a worthwhile novel to read. I especially liked the picture of post-war Japan it presented.

I’m writing this post at my apartment complex’s computer/business room because my PC appears to either be dead or dying or something. After fiddling with the thing for two hours this morning, it’s still not running. Earlier, I went online in the...

Here’s this week’s Booking Through Thursday: What’s your favorite part of Booking Through Thursday? Why do you participate (or not)? When I found Booking Through Thursday, I thought it would give me at least one weekly blog topic, and thought it...

Sometimes you find the right book to read. Or perhaps it finds you. However it happened, Tell It Slant by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola became for me the right book at the right time to read. As you know,  I have recently hit a dead zone with my...

Here is this week’s Booking Through Thursday: Do you think any current author is of the same caliber as Dickens, Austen, Bronte, or any of the classic authors? If so, who, and why do you think so? If not, why not? What books from this era might be...